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Entertain

verb

(past & past part. entertained; pres. part. entertaining)

Provide entertainment for.

Take into consideration, have in view. Synonyms: flirt with, think about, think of, toy with.

Maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings). Synonyms: harbor, harbour, hold, nurse. "Entertain interesting notions" , "Harbor a resentment"

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"Entertain" Quotes from Famous Books

... upon to entertain his friends, and one evening they all sat dining at Hurlingham in the long room. The conversation, as usual, had been ...

— Vain Fortune • George Moore

... not entertain a thought of departing without again beholding her. He wanted to know what she would say, and when he might see her again. After all, what was the hurry to depart? He might as well ...

— The Furnace of Gold • Philip Verrill Mighels

... in time." So he kick his leg upon the board, and cry "cheat!" and we are out into the country in lesser than one minute, and roll at so grand pace, what I have had fear we will be reversed. But after little times, I take courage and we begin to entertain together: but I hear one of the wheels cry squeak, so I tell him, "Sir, one of the wheel would be greased;" then he make reply nonchalancely, "Oh it is nothing but one of the boxes what is too tight." But it is very long time after ...

— The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; • Various

... Vargrave, to Maltravers, "I am willing to leave you in possession of the field. Miss Cameron, it will be, I fear, impossible for me to entertain any longer the bright hopes I had once formed; my cruel fate compels me to seek wealth in any matrimonial engagement. I regret to inform you that you are no longer the great heiress; the whole of your capital ...

— Alice, or The Mysteries, Book XI • Edward Bulwer Lytton

... of "taking fits of laughter into her head." Evidently, she has apartments to let in that repository. In any case, it is well that she should find so much to entertain her and feel so bright and happy. This state of things will ...

— The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 357, October 30, 1886 • Various

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